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  Community Round-up #27 &ndash; Relay Edition

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  <p>In the weeks following the <a href="/react/blog/2015/08/11/relay-technical-preview.html">open-source release</a> of the Relay technical preview, the community has been abuzz with activity. We are honored to have been able to enjoy a steady stream of ideas and contributions from such a talented group of individuals. Let&#39;s take a look at some of the things we&#39;ve achieved, together!</p>

<h2>Teaching servers to speak GraphQL</h2>

<p>Every great Relay app starts by finding a GraphQL server to talk to. The community has spent the past few weeks teaching GraphQL to a few backend systems.</p>

<p>Bryan Goldstein (<a href="https://github.com/brysgo">brysgo</a>) has built a tool to help you define a GraphQL schema that wraps a set of <a href="http://bookshelfjs.org/">Bookshelf.JS</a> models. Check out <a href="https://github.com/brysgo/graphql-bookshelf">graphql-bookshelf</a>.</p>

<p>RisingStack (<a href="https://github.com/risingstack">risingstack</a>) created a GraphQL ORM called <a href="https://github.com/RisingStack/graffiti">graffiti</a> that you can plug into <a href="http://mongoosejs.com/">mongoose</a> and serve using Express, Hapi, or Koa.</p>

<p>David Mongeau-Petitpas (<a href="https://github.com/dmongeau">dmongeau</a>) is working on a way to vend your Laravel models through a GraphQL endpoint, <a href="https://github.com/Folkloreatelier/laravel-graphql">laravel-graphql</a>.</p>

<p>Gerald Monaco (<a href="https://github.com/devknoll">devknoll</a>) created <a href="https://github.com/devknoll/graphql-schema">graphql-schema</a> to allow the creation of JavaScript GraphQL schemas using a fluent/chainable interface.</p>

<p>Jason Dusek (<a href="https://github.com/solidsnack">solidsnack</a>) dove deep into PostgreSQL to teach it how to respond to GraphQL query strings as though they were SQL queries. Check out <a href="https://github.com/solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL">GraphpostgresQL</a>.</p>

<p>Espen Hovlandsdal (<a href="https://github.com/rexxars">rexxars</a>) built a <a href="https://github.com/vaffel/sql-to-graphql">sql-to-graphql</a> tool that can perform introspection on the tables of a MySQL or PostgreSQL database, and produce a queryable HTTP GraphQL endpoint out of it.</p>

<p>Mick Hansen (<a href="https://github.com/mickhansen">mickhansen</a>) offers a set of <a href="https://github.com/mickhansen/graphql-sequelize">schema-building helpers</a> for use with the <a href="http://docs.sequelizejs.com/en/latest/">Sequelize ORM</a> for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MSSQL.</p>

<h2>GraphQL beyond JavaScript</h2>

<p>Robert Mosolgo (<a href="https://github.com/rmosolgo">rmosolgo</a>) brought the full set of schema-building and query execution tools to Ruby, in the form of <a href="https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby">graphql-ruby</a> and <a href="https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-relay-ruby">graphql-relay-ruby</a>. Check out his <a href="https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby-demo">Rails-based demo</a>.</p>

<p>Andreas Marek (<a href="https://github.com/andimarek">andimarek</a>) has brewed up a Java implementation of GraphQL, <a href="https://github.com/andimarek/graphql-java">graphql-java</a>.</p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/vladar">vladar</a> is hard at work on a PHP port of the GraphQL reference implementation, <a href="https://github.com/webonyx/graphql-php">graphql-php</a>.</p>

<p>Taeho Kim (<a href="https://github.com/dittos">dittos</a>) is bringing GraphQL to Python, with <a href="https://github.com/dittos/graphql-py">graphql-py</a>.</p>

<p>Oleg Ilyenko (<a href="https://github.com/OlegIlyenko">OlegIlyenko</a>) made a beautiful and <a href="http://sangria-graphql.org/">delicious-looking website</a> for a Scala implementation of GraphQL, <a href="https://github.com/sangria-graphql/sangria">sangria</a>.</p>

<p>Joe McBride (<a href="https://github.com/joemcbride">joemcbride</a>) has an up-and-running example of GraphQL for .NET, <a href="https://github.com/joemcbride/graphql-dotnet">graphql-dotnet</a>.</p>

<h2>Show me, don&#39;t tell me</h2>

<p>Interact with this <a href="http://sgwilym.github.io/relay-visual-learners/">visual tour of Relay&#39;s architecture</a> by Sam Gwilym (<a href="https://github.com/sgwilym">sgwilym</a>).</p>

<p><a href="http://sgwilym.github.io/relay-visual-learners/">
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<p>Sam has already launched a product that leverages Relay&#39;s data-fetching, optimistic responses, pagination, and mutations &ndash; all atop a Ruby GraphQL server: <a href="http://new.comique.co/">new.comique.co</a></p>

<h2>Prototyping in the browser</h2>

<p>I (<a href="https://github.com/steveluscher">steveluscher</a>) whipped up <a href="https://facebook.github.io/relay/prototyping/playground.html">a prototyping tool</a> that you can use to hack on a schema and a React/Relay app, from the comfort of your browser. Thanks to Jimmy Jia (<a href="https://github.com/taion">taion</a>) for supplying the local-only network layer, <a href="https://github.com/relay-tools/relay-local-schema">relay-local-schema</a>.</p>

<h2>Skeletons in the closet</h2>

<p>Joseph Rollins (<a href="https://github.com/fortruce">fortruce</a>) created a hot-reloading, auto schema-regenerating, <a href="https://github.com/fortruce/relay-skeleton">Relay skeleton</a> that you can use to get up and running quickly.</p>

<p>Michael Hart (<a href="https://mhart">mhart</a>) built a <a href="https://github.com/mhart/simple-relay-starter">simple-relay-starter</a> kit using Browserify.</p>

<h2>Routing around</h2>

<p>Jimmy Jia (<a href="https://github.com/taion">taion</a>) and Gerald Monaco (<a href="https://github.com/devknoll">devknoll</a>) have been helping lost URLs find their way to Relay apps through their work on <a href="https://github.com/relay-tools/react-router-relay">react-router-relay</a>. Check out Christoph Pojer&#39;s (<a href="https://github.com/cpojer">cpojer</a>) <a href="https://medium.com/@cpojer/relay-and-routing-36b5439bad9">blog post</a> on the topic. Jimmy completed the Relay TodoMVC example with routing, which you can check out at <a href="https://github.com/taion/relay-todomvc">taion/relay-todomvc</a>.</p>

<p>Chen Hung-Tu (<a href="https://github.com/transedward">transedward</a>) built a chat app atop the above mentioned router, with threaded conversations and pagination. Check it out at <a href="https://github.com/transedward/relay-chat">transedward/relay-chat</a>.</p>

<h2>In your words</h2>

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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Relay making good on its promise to be the &quot;React.js of data fetching&quot;. Rebuilding small app with it. Spectacular how fast/easy building is.</p>&mdash; Kyle Mathews (@kylemathews) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylemathews/status/640289107122368513">September 5, 2015</a></blockquote>

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RainySundayHackathon?src=hash">#RainySundayHackathon</a> exploring <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GraphQL?src=hash">#GraphQL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RelayJS?src=hash">#RelayJS</a> <a href="http://t.co/Mm3HlqMejJ">pic.twitter.com/Mm3HlqMejJ</a></p>&mdash; Bastian Kistner (@passionkind) <a href="https://twitter.com/passionkind/status/632846601447411712">August 16, 2015</a></blockquote>

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Friday. Time to GraphQL a MySQL database. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/graphql?src=hash">#graphql</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/relayjs?src=hash">#relayjs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/reactjs?src=hash">#reactjs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/webapp?src=hash">#webapp</a></p>&mdash; xador (@xadorfr) <a href="https://twitter.com/xadorfr/status/632108552765751296">August 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Started a new <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RelayJS?src=hash">#RelayJS</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GraphQL?src=hash">#GraphQL</a> meet up group! <a href="http://t.co/Vt6Cv4nNH4">http://t.co/Vt6Cv4nNH4</a> If you&#39;re in the Bay Area, I&#39;d love to have you join! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReactJS?src=hash">#ReactJS</a></p>&mdash; Gerald Monaco (@devknoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/devknoll/status/636723716123000832">August 27, 2015</a></blockquote>

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/reactjs">@reactjs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/laneykuenzel">@laneykuenzel</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BhuwanKhattar">@BhuwanKhattar</a> these <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/relayjs?src=hash">#relayjs</a> mutations. they&#39;re mind-blowingly awesome. they make so much damn sense. thank you!</p>&mdash; Jimmy Jia (@jimmy_jia) <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmy_jia/status/634204563709526016">August 20, 2015</a></blockquote>

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">REST is dead, long live REST! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/graphql?src=hash">#graphql</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/relayjs?src=hash">#relayjs</a></p>&mdash; Syrus Akbary (@syrusakbary) <a href="https://twitter.com/syrusakbary/status/631531666113060864">August 12, 2015</a></blockquote>
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